Plextor PX-NAS4 – NAS box review

Now let’s take a look at the Plextor
PX-NAS4 server and security settings.

Setting up a user
account

Clicking on the “users” item
in the menu will bring up the user overview dialogue, from here you can add as
many users as required by clicking on the “Add user” icon.

User overview

Clicking the “shares” menu
item will bring up the “shares” dialogue box, and will allow the administrator
to set permissions for users and groups.

Shares overview

Summary

Setting up the user accounts
and permissions was a very simple affair. It was also possible to allow or deny
access to other people's shared folders.

Backup and restore

By its nature, an NAS unit
could be storing a lot of important data, so it’s nice to see a backup utility
being bundled with the NAS.

Genie Backup Manager Lite

The Genie Backup Manager Lite software
can be installed on a Windows based host PC, allowing backups to be carried out
from the main PC. The PX-NAS4 also has its own server to server backup utility
already installed on the NAS unit itself.

PX-NAS4 backup utility

PX-NAS4 restore utility

Let’s head
to the next page where I will take a look at media sharing features and
performance....